Языкознание. Филология

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Davidson, Jenny. Reading Jane Austen / Jenny Davidson, Columbia University. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017. - xvii, 158  с. - Библиогр.: с. 149. - Указ.: с. 153

The topic of how we respond to books we love, as well as how that affects the critical discourse about them, has become a legitimate object of study in its own right, with Austen as a central example; though Shakespeare might be the most closely comparable instance in the English literary tradition, certain other authors undoubtedly continue to elicit curiously strong allegiances from unusually large numbers of readers (the three quite different names of J. R. R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand and Toni Morrison come immediately to mind). I strongly believe that rather than canceling each other out, a productive tension exists between the different modes involved in loving books and in reading them to understand how they work, what they mean and why they matter, not least because both orientations depend heavily on the practice of repeated rereading, even or perhaps especially in the case of books we already know very well.

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The Cambridge companion to Saul Bellow / [edited by] Victoria Aarons. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. - xvi, 199 с. - ([Cambridge Companions to Literature]). - Библиогр.: с. 183. - Указ.: с. 193

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow’s work explores the most important cultural and social experiences of his era: the impact of the Holocaust, the urban experience of European immigrants from a Jewish perspective, the fraught failures of the Vietnam War, the ideological seductions of Marxism and Modernism, and the changing attitudes concerning gender and race. This Companion demonstrates the complex- ity of this formative writer by emphasizing the ways in which Bellow’s works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the postwar period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Individual chapters address the major themes of Bellow’s work over more than a half-century of masterfully crafted fiction, articulating some of the most significant cultural experiences of the American twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of a key figure in American literature.Victoria Aarons is the O. R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University. She is the author of A Measure of Memory and What Happened to Abraham, both recipients of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book; and the co-editor of The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction, and Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute. She is co-author of Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory, and editor of Third- Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction. Aarons has published over seventy scholarly articles and is on the editorial board of Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Women in Judaism, and Verbeia, Journal of English and Spanish Studies. She serves as a judge for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award.

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